Rail support and tie protector



April 8, 1924: 1,489,238

J. J. DUFFY ET AL RAIL SUPPORT AND TIE PROTECTOR Filed April 50 1923 3nventois Paterited Apr, 8, 1924.

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JAMES 3'. DFY AND FRANK A.gKELL, OF CHICAGO, ILI.INOIS. V

-RAIL SUPPORT AND TIEflPROTECTR.

Application filed April 30, 1823. Serial No. 65,679.

T0 aZZ w7zom it may concern:

Be it 1mown chat we, JAMES J.DUFFY and FRANK LIELL, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvemcnts in Rail Supports and Tie Protectors, of.which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to tracks and more particnlarly to such made of cross tics embedded in suitable ballast or otherwise supported and on which are surmounted the rails. While the invention is particularly well adapted for use where the tics are of wood, it may be applied With certain advantages to tics of other material, such as cernent.

The principal objects of the invention are, to provide devices for supporting the rails of tracks to a greater extent than the mere contact of the base of the rail with the tie, and without the interposition of so Called tie plates between the base of the rail and the tie; to provide for such support with a minimum of material used in the manufacture of such supporting devices; to protect the ties by spreading the load coming there upon to a greater extent than results from the ordinary base contact of the rail with the tie; and to prevent alteration of the track gage incident torolling stock passing over the track Which has a tendency to cause the ties to become slewed;

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a rail supportwhich Will more efiectively resist lateral tipping of the rail by forming the support With a wider tie engaging portion, to be disposed at one side of the rail (that side toward which the rail is most likely to tip), than the tie engaging portion at the opposite side of the rail.

Other objects and advantages of the invention Will appear in the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of fragments of companion rails of a track, mounted upon a tie With rail supports and tie protectors applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 2 2 of Figure 1, the tie being ehofWn in elevatioh;

Fig; 3 is an enlaigd sectioiial vieW on the line 3=3 tif Figure 1, the rail beirig shown in elevatiom A is a cross tie, B rails resting thereupon,

0 the preferred einbOdiment' of the present invention,the rail support and tie protector, and D suitableidevices, such aSspikes, for7securing the rail to thetie and maintairiing therailsupport and tie protector C H in place.

The tics of thetrack'may be of wood or other 'suitable material preferably provided With a substantially fiat upper face 5 and of substantially uniform widthso that the sides 6 may both be engaged by portions of the rail Support.

The rail may be of any pref rred or standard cross section iricluding a base 7 adapted to rst upon the face 5 of the tie.

Referring noW to rail support C it is pref erabl formed of cast nietal in a unit and includes relatively Wide fiat elongated plate portions 8 and 9 to engage the upper face of the tie A at opposite sides of the base 7 of the rail B, and extending longitudinally of the base, the lower major face 10 of each plate portion/t0 contact with the tie; and relatively wide fiat elongated plate portions 11 t0 engage the under face of the base 7 of the rail B at opposite sides of the tie A,

and extending longitudinally thereof with the upper major face 12 of each portion 11 to contact with the base 7 ofthe rail B.

The plate portions 8 and 9 ar e in Spaced apart relation, a distance substantially the width of the base of the rail, so that the minor faces 13 of these portions 8 and 9, which are adjacent one another, contact With the base of the rail as ciearly shown in Figure 2 of the drawings. The plate por tions 11 are also in spaced apart relation substantially the width of the tie A, so that the miner faces 14 of these portions 11 contact with the sides 6 of tie A.

The plate portions 8, 9 and 11 are joined together so as to provide a rectangular opening 15, as shown in Figure 4 of the drawings, bounded by the minor faces 13 and 14: of the plate portions 8, 9 and 11, and this opening permits the base of the rail to contact with the upper face 5 of the tie A, without the interposition of metal oetWeen the base 7 of the rail and the tie. The uncturebetween plats portions 8 and 11 is radicatsd at 3.6, ancre metai .is rcla tively thiker than the metal at eah sideof the junfctur, and the junctnie betWeen the portions 9 and 11 is indicated at 17, also i'elatively thicker.

The plate portion 8 is made relatively wider than the plate portion 9and in practice it is preferred to dispose the relatively wider plate portion at'that side of the rail B where it Will most effectively resist the lateral tipping of the rail. For instance in Figure 1, which may indioate, by way Qf example, a eomparatively straight run of traek, the relatively Widr plate} portions 8 are disposed ..Uterin0st, and hence if tl1e1e is a tendency forthe rail tp 'tip; suchvill be countracted by the 1elatiQl wide plate p ti n ensa uppe a of h x tie, and to whieh'tl foresare transmitted;

coming upon the rail, through the dvices; D and the engagement of the base of the rail, With the plate portions 11.

It is pref6ried to p rovide tli e plats p03- tions 8 and 9 with l l bS 18' Xtending longi: tudinall t q nd p j tin pw lr ly r m the p ate p r i ns; c1ez y sh n in. Figure 4 Cf thedraWi1igs, thse rbS 18 (Bontinued beyond the junctures 16 and 1? and connected to the end portions of the plate portions 11, as at 19, 'These ribs reinlorce the plate portions 8 and 9-, prevehting them from arching and 'also have a tendency to reinfo1ce the plate portions 11 which are preferably provided 'with I "ibS 20 extendiig longitudihally of and projkscting' clown; wardly from the plate portions 11.;

For the accommodation of thshankg of spikes D, the Plate portions 8 and 9. are recessed inwardly from the Inino1f faces 18, as shown at 21, thes e recesseS'qf a size 'to receive, wthout plajy, the"shanls of the spikes, so that the heads of the spi kes may engage the plate portions 8 and 9, as well as the base 7 of the rail, as shown in igure 2 of the drawiflg.

It will be observed that, by use of the rail support and tie protector the tie is maintained in a position With its longitudinal axis at a right angle to the axis of the rail Where the track is substantially straight, or radially of curved rails and hence there is no tendency for the gage of the track to be destroyed as results where a tie may creep with one rail; The life of the rail is prolon ed, due to the fact that it is supported, not only by its nsual engagement with the tie, but also due to the arrangement of the plate portions 11, with theii m;ijohfas engaghig the under side ol'the rail, giVi1ig, in the example Shown, substar1tiallv'l00% additional support for the rail. This is acComplished with a minimum amount of material going into the rail support,tor there s no mtal intarposed between the bottom of the railand the tie.

Changes in details may be madewithont departing from the spirit Or scope of the'inven io b t,

lVe daim:

A rail support and tie protctor formad as an integral structure and havng side portiens and end portions formed of fiat plates, the end plates being adaptedto engage sides of a tie and the side plates being adapted to extend in crossed relation to tie with their end portions extendingoverthe inner side porti9fiS 01 the end plates and rigid tl1ere- With, ribs extending l0hgitudinally 0]: the side plates upgn their upper faces and intetmediate the width thereot and having thein and portions extending beyond the ends of the' side plates and across the end portions or the end plates and incli1ied to- Wards each other, and depending ribs extending longitudinally upon the Under faces of the end plates and intermediate the width thereof.

JAMES J. DUFFY. FRANK A. KELL. 

